Create 4.1.3 Aggregating Lesson Material Quest

As discussed throughout the quest, collecting or curating learning objects, resources, and learning material enriches the e-learning environment. Research and identify three tools that can be used to aggregate and present learning material, other than the two mentioned in the lesson. Post findings in your blog and include a brief description and the associated costs.

Any LMS system is an aggregation of tools use to display and manage a lesson. In a single week listed for my students in Moodle I might have 15 resources. At the top of the Course pages I have a list of interesting and useful sites.

The Elearning tools had several sites that listed a online creation tools complete with description and a link to them.

The costs for these websites is mainly time. It takes time to look through the lists and find the tools that will work.

When creating a lesson that is made up of many parts for your students the cost might be a bit of confusion. For instance, I put together a lesson for a week of Net Safety. I mainly use NetSmartz  but on that website there is a huge number of resources, videos, worksheets, posters and research activities. I also used a Blog, made in Moodle, that the students had to contribute to. The I used some of the resourced that they brought to me. This means that the students had to access 5 or 6 websites and do 3 or 4 different activities that week. It was easy to miss one of become confused as to what you had to do.